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Show / r 1 3 * ' O / fc> 16, Cromer Terrace, Leeds, 2. ' „ ,JLQ 31st July, 1950 Dear Professor Ati.ya* T wonder if you remember me as a student of Kahle in Bonn ? New Testament. / ^ ^ flrst place to congratulate you on your x „.*.*-<„ an* ^ionnvpTv on Mt. Sinai about which I read ia last S S S ^ T S S i ! I Sfo°Srite; a s V can surmise, out of an intense JSiSltyi I have been working since my Bonn days on things ayriac; I've an edition of a Pal. Syr. MS at present with the O.U.P. My main WEM^let¥ ^ ^' St" M^S any "S^f^f.T* and the P e s n l t t a ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ r^ p ^ e t l t i o n e d ^ b e l o n g X i m d_ tn the 4th century, they must almost certainly be of tne family of linaiticus ant CuretoniLus in their Gospel text. Has any evidence of M s s h o w n u p ? Seeing infra-red will be employed, I don t suppose microfilm will be of much use ? *nd I expect inany case the whole , material lill go to the United States where i-^***^ there will be more than one interested scholar, though at the moment there do not anoearto %lmly Syriac specialist^ I had a visit last week or Bruce H ? ™ * o f Princeton in connection with the new edition of the Greek SfTfon wLcfi I Sope to help on the Syriac side; Metzger was deploring the situation in the States in this respect. And now that Blake has lonTlrmenlan and Georgian studies are in much the same state. b ? At any rate, whatever happens to these MSS, you are assured of my very great interest, and if in any small way my services can Z of any assistance to you, it would be a very great privilege to help. KahlGj wlth whom I kelp in touch, is at present in Germany. I am writing to him this morning and sending him on the rirnes Jutting? I expect you will be having a letter from him-and I have no doubt also from very many others . With kindest remembrances, Yours sincerely, / Q. Hev. Matthew Black, D.Litt. , The University of Leeds* |